Welcome to the land of Caretta-Caretta turtle!

We love Caretta-Caretta turtles as we see them in beaches in our home villages.
Some of the students of Winners Education come from the islands of Zakynthos and Crete,
where the slow-moving, hard-working mothers come to build their nests and lay their eggs.
We've given our beloved turtle the nickname Caretta2 (caretta square) and have decided to
create the Caretta2 Global Project to help raise awareness for its plight.

The Caretta-Carreta Global Project.

Aim
Our aim is to help raise awareness on the serious threat the loggerhead turtle is facing. Our little turtle, Neptune the Carreta2, will travel around the world along with its diary to inform everyone of its plight. At the same time, the issue of plastic garbage thrown in beaches or discarded at sea will also be discussed as it's one of the threats for the caretta-caretta turtle (and not only!).

Ages
Any age

Project Outline

ü Teach your class about the Caretta turtle, its unique travels and the dire threat it’s facing especially in Greece.

Discuss the impact of human activity on the environment, especially plastic in the sea

ü Host Neptune the Caretta in your school, take pictures and organise activities to inform the local community of its plight

ü Share photos and comments in the project diary

ü Document your activities in Our Globetrotting Caretta2 wiki. Email Mrs Kyrikakis for more information or create a page
for your class. (You need a Wikispaces account to do this)

Activities can include

* create art work

* create a questionnaire about the Caretta turtle’s life and have students ask parents, and relatives

* act out Neptune’s life

* write poems

* write a story

* create a video and show it to the other school classes (with Vimeo, MovieMaker, etc)

* create banners and go from class to class to “demonstrate” and inform other students on the Carreta turtle’s plight

* Make a school yard/ street demonstration with your banners (for the brave hearts!)

* create an appeal with VoiceThread to save the Caretta turtle

Share your school details in the project participation form